Welcome Note
Randi Gunzenhäuser, Associate Dean of Faculty of Culture Studies
Opening Notes
Walter Grünzweig; Alexander Dunst
(Introduction: Stefan Schlensag)
with an introduction by David Kleiweght
(Chair: Damian Podlesny)
James Burton (University of the Ruhr, Bochum, Germany)
“From Exegesis to Ecology”
Erik Davis (Rice University, Houston, USA)
“How I Learned to Love the Exegesis and So Can You”
Chris Rudge (University of Sydney, Australia)
“Dick on Drugs: acid, amphetamines, and the authoring of science fiction”
(Introduction: Randi Gunzenhäuser)
(Chair: Mario Dunkel)
Nassim Omidyazdani (Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran)
“Subjectivity Crisis in Philip K.Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Yari Lanci (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
“Remember Tomorrow: Philip K. Dick and the Variable Future of Neoliberalism”
José Jesse Ramírez (Yale University, New Haven)
“The Paranoia of Globalisation”
Chris Leslie (Polytechnic Institute of New York University)
“The Military-Industrial Complex in the 1960s Novels”
(Chair: Marie Hologa)
Ian C. Davidson (University of Northumbria, UK)
“Mobility, Automobility and the Early Novels”
Salvatore Proietti ( Universita della Calabria, Italy)
“Dick’s Antiheroes and Countercultural Individualism”
Dirk Vanderbecke (University of Jena, Germany)
“When you're growing up in a small town”
Fabienne Collingnon (University of Sheffield)
“Cold-Pac Politics”
(Introduction: Sina Nitzsche)
performed by Jan Duve
(Chair: Jose Jesse Ramírez)
Daniel Cape (University of Sydney, Australia), “What does a scanner see?
The implications of turning Dick's dark vision into rotoscoped animation in A Scanner Darkly”
Stefan Schlensag (TU Dortmund Universtiy, Germany)
“Eye-Dentities – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Graphic Novel”
Irina Novikova (University of Latvia, Latvia)
“Reading Philip K. Dick in Russian Translation:
A Visionary for a Time Out of Joint”
(Introduction: Julia Sattler)
on Philip K Dick on today’s SF-Scene
(Chair: Cyprian Piskurek)
Noah Jampol (Catholic University America, Washington, USA)
“Narrative Techniques and Plots in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in High Castle”
Raine Koskimaa (University of Jyväskyylä, Finland)
“Counter-clock Worlds. PKD and Reversed-Time Stories”
Sandor Klapcsik, (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary)
“Media, Psychology, and Drugs in Philip K. Dick’s Oeuvre”
Matt Englund (Binghamton University, New York, USA)
“The Raising of Held Skalla: Reevaluating Galactic Pot-Healer”
(Introduction: Walter Grünzweig)
(Chair: Florian Siedlarek)
Paul Heilker (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
“Androids, Empathy, Autism, and Humanity”
Saliola Dina Ester (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
“Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner and Carlton Mellick III: A Diagonal Connection on Android Entities
Jason Ellis (University of Liverpool, UK)
“Philip K. Dick as Pioneer of the Brain Revolution”
Jedidiah Evans (University of Sydney, Australia)
“ Dick’s Mechanical Man”
(Introduction: Martina Pfeiler)